Two different thymidylate kinase gene homologues, including one that has catalytic activity, are encoded in the onion yellows phytoplasma genome

Author:

Miyata Shin-ichi1,Oshima Kenro1,Kakizawa Shigeyuki1,Nishigawa Hisashi2,Jung Hee-Young2,Kuboyama Tsutomu3,Ugaki Masashi21,Namba Shigetou21

Affiliation:

1. Division of Integrated Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, 202 Bioscience Bldg, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Chiba 277-8562, Japan

2. Division of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan

3. Department of Agricultural Sciences, School of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Chuo 3-21-1, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0393, Japan

Abstract

Thymidylate kinase (TMK) catalyses the phosphorylation of dTMP to form dTDP in both thede novoand salvage pathways of dTTP synthesis in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Two homologues of bacterial thymidylate kinase genes were identified in a genomic library of the onion yellows (OY) phytoplasma, a plant pathogen that inhabits both plant phloem and the organs of insects. Southern blotting analysis suggested that the OY genome contained one copy of thetmk-bgene and multiple copies of thetmk-agene. Sequencing of PCR products generated by amplification oftmk-aenabled identification of three other copies oftmk-a, although the ORF in each of these was interrupted by point mutations. The proteins, TMK-a and TMK-b, encoded by the two intact genes contained conserved motifs for catalytic activity. Both proteins were overexpressed as fusion proteins with a polyhistidine tag inEscherichia coliand purified, and TMK-b was shown to have thymidylate kinase activity. This is believed to be the first report of the catalytic activity of a phytoplasmal protein, and the OY phytoplasma is the first bacterial species to be found to have two intact homologues oftmkin its genome.

Publisher

Microbiology Society

Subject

Microbiology

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